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Discussion List
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Understanding How Nutrition Affects EpigeneticsOutcome A better understanding of how individuals’ epigenetics are influenced by their dietary c…
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Study links sleep-disordered breathing to age accelerationResults provide biological evidence of the adverse effects of untreated sleep-disordered breathing …
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Women in agricultureRural Women are the ones who take part in almost 80% of agriculture to feed this whole world and ye…
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Challenges in Food Distribution and ProcessingWe are interested in exploring a holistic food systems approach and want to better understand speci…
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Is forest gardening the future of farming?Instead of neat rows of monoculture, does the future of farming have large scale forest gardens in …
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Tackling Tailings: Repurpose and RemediationA likely goal for the Zero-Waste Mining XPRIZE is the complete elimination of tailings. One poss…
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First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get UnderwayFirst U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Human Gene-Editing Trials Get Underway The powerful …
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Aging, Figured OutOutcome A theory of aging that ties together all the different mechanisms of aging and explains …
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A Cure for Alzheimer Disease? A sweet and sour messageThis week there were 2 announcements; 1. Another AD drug failed a human clinical trial. See http…
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Caloric Restriction in a PillOutcome A treatment, diet regime or biomedical device that can replicate the beneficial effects …
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Could boosting the gut microbiome be the secret to healthier older age?Fecal transplants from young to aged mice rejuvenates the immune system in the gut of aged mice …
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Lab-grown meatThis is from the BBC: iPS cells could be used to synthesise lab-grown meat ... alleviating inhu…
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Gifts and Rewards for Top ContributorsThank you for participating in the XPRIZE community! We know your time is precious, and we appre…
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Demographic time-bomb: Finland sends a warning to EuropeFrom the Financial Times: Among rich, industrialised countries only Japan and South Korea have …
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Profit PotentialIn addition to the metrics listed in our first Metrics discussion (link here), we are also interest…
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TED Talk, Bruce Friedrich - The Next Global Agricultural RevolutionVery much worth watching! ABOUT THE SPEAKER - TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich plans to compete with t…
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) Lawrence HaddadWinning awards all over the place, this is a great group to include the work of. I have really stro…
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Gifts and Rewards for Top ContributorsThank you for participating in the XPRIZE community! We know your time is precious, and we appre…
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The Age-Reversed AnimalOutcome An animal model that can experience normal biological aging which will then be reversed.…
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The Circadian Clock and its impact on LongevityA recent study on the linkage between Circadian clock and fat metabolism may point to a temporal di…
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Aging, SharedOutcome A ledger on which real-time data will be collected from individuals, to track their vita…
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Time to highlight the role of Mitochondria in aginghttps://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/mgh-mpp040319.php Mitochondrial permeability plays a…